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  • Regenesis

    How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

    A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Monsters

    The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology

    par Edward Regis ...
    "Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg -- like the Titanic -- is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten the lessons that can be learned from the infamous 1937 zeppelin disaster.Zeppelins were steerable balloons of highly ... En savoir plus

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  • The Genesis Machine

    Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity’s existential challenges from climate change, to ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Story of Stories

    The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

    par Kevin Ashton ...
    An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Billion-Dollar Molecule

    The Quest for the Perfect Drug

    par Barry Werth ...
    Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing—atom by atom—both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    par Richard Rhodes ...
    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Electric Universe

    How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

    par David Bodanis ...
    The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • James May's Magnificent Machines

    How men in sheds have changed our lives

    Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations.Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more.But he also ... En savoir plus

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  • The Hunt for Zero Point

    Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology

    par Nick Cook ...
    This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in ... En savoir plus

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  • Secret Journey to Planet Serpo

    A True Story of Interplanetary Travel

    par Len Kasten ...
    Documents how 12 people, as part of a top-secret U.S. government program, traveled to the planet Serpo and lived there for 13 years• Based on the debriefing of the Serpo team and the diary of the expedition’s commander• Explains how the aliens helped us reverse-engineer their antigravity spacecraft and develop technology to solve our planet-wide energy problems• Reveals how our government has an ... En savoir plus

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  • Reach for the Skies

    Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space

    As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But Richard Branson has met many ... En savoir plus

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  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity

    The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

    The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.In the 1930s, rockets were all the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD